Ask HN: File/Directory Organization Tips & Hacks
I've read quite a few articles detailing various people's strategies, but I'd be really interested to hear how fellow HN readers do it. Here's a few prompt questions:
- How do you achieve a balance between separation and integration when it comes to personal/work documents, reference material, code & repos, sideprojects, client work?
- Do you prefer wide or deep folder structures?
- Does your approach differ between your home directory, external drives, network shares, or Dropbox?
- Have you come across (or created) any neat hacks (i.e. with external services or third-party software like GitHub, Dropbox, Evernote and so forth)?
For the last year or so I've been working with a system (very) loosely based on this lifehacker article: http://lifehacker.com/156196/geek-to-live--organizing-my-documents. It's worked pretty well thus far, but I'm sure there's room for improvement.